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A selection of :- Durham Acts of Parliament
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Measurements for maps, engravings, etc are given depth x width.


  1. Coal types STEAM COAL Two manuscript sheets headed 'Steam Coals'. 4p., folio, folded, listing 180 coals, with a letter 'S', 'N', or 'S & H' by the side, and, in about half the cases, the name of the colliery, for example 'Hetton Nut. Hetton', 'Londonderry Steam Boat. Pensher', 'Walker Primrose. Walker', 'Caradoc. Wingate Grange'. Some of the items have been crossed through. n.d. c1870? £20.00
    Would seem to relate to the county of Durham.

  2. Hopetown and Cockerton PARTICULARS AND PLAN of Valuable and Important Freehold Building Land, Garden Ground and Dwelling-Houses, Situate near Hopetown and Cockerton in the Vicinity of Darlington... To be Sold by Auction... 29th Day of April, 1868. 3pp., folio, hand-coloured folding plan, docket title. 1868. £22.00

  3. Kellow and Branspeth EXEMPLIFICATION OF A RECOVERY Thomas Wharton Doctor in Physic against Richard Scruton, given before Sir George Nares Knight of Durham. Refers to a moiety of the Manor of Hurworth otherwise Hurworth on the Moor, and Ten Messuages, Ten Cottages, Ten Orchards, One thousand acres of pasture, one thousand acres of Meadow, one hundred acres of wood, one hundred acres of moor and Common of Pasture for Cattle. Vellum, 25" x 32", large papered wax seal on tag. Vellum slightly browned, dust-stained on verso. 1786. £36.00

  4. Low Coniscliffe PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS for Selling by Auction.... by Messrs T. Watson & Son.... A Freehold Close called Little Moor. 2pp, sm. folio, with plan coloured in outline. 1877. £16.00

    DURHAM Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
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  5. Middlesborough, Darlington, Durham ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Two quarter sheets, CIII S.E., CIII N.E. Each 14" x 19" plus margins. Border all round. Each map linen backed and mounted on boards in book form. Green morocco, size 5«" x 4", gilt decoration on spine, gilt title on front board. Electrotyped 1864. £18.00

  6. Sunderland ANNUAL FESTIVAL Williamson Lodge, no. 949. Bro. L.D. Chatt, W.M. You are requested to attend the Annual Festival... Monday May 7, 1866. Dinner on the Table at Seven o'clock precisely. Highly decorative invitation, size 8«" x 5", comprises page with text in gold, red and blue, small masonic vignette, and ornate lacework border with embossed flowers etc., and blank conjoint leaf. Bro. J. Coulthard, Printer. 1866. £15.00

  7. Sunderland PRICE LIST of Colling & Pinkney. Patent Self Reefing & Furling Apparatus. On Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. Lithographed on one side of 4to sheet, blue paper. Royal coat of arms, and small illustration of a ship's mast with sail, letters indicating where fittings to be placed. Traces of folds. Small tear in text. c1860. £16.00
    'The Ship to pay for fitting up, also for spars & chains'.

  8. Teesdale & Co. Publisher MAP OF DURHAM Engraved fully hand-coloured map, size 13" x 16". 1832. £16.00
    Shaded in wards.

  9. Walker (J) & (C) DURHAM Folding engraved, hand-coloured map, showing Parliamentary Boundaries, dissected and mounted on linen, engraved area approx. 12«" x 15«", plus margins, folding to boards size 5" x 3«", with original decorative paper label 1842. £14.00

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